Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started training. "I have lost 18 LB in my weight ... by violent exercise and Fasting ... I wear seven Waistcoats and a greatcoat, run, and play at cricket in this Dress, till quite exhausted by excessive perspiration, and the Hip Bath daily; eat only a quarter of a pound of Butcher's Meat in 24 hours, no Suppers or Breakfast, only one Meal a day; drink no malt liquor, but a little Wine, and take Physic occasionally. By these means my Ribs display Skin of no great Thickness & my Clothes have been taken in nearly half a yard...
Town Without Water. All this spells financial disaster for some cattlemen, although there are many who have shored up their financial position out of the huge profits of recent years. Eventually, consumers all over the U.S. will feel the effects. Although beef prices are down at the butcher shops now because of the market glut, premature marketing and sale of foundation herds are likely to lead to serious beef shortages and high prices in the months ahead...
...HOUSEWIFE once asked her butcher why he charged 50? a Ib. for hamburger when the man down the street advertised it for 10?. Retorted the butcher: "Why don't you buy your hamburger there?" "I tried to," she replied, "but he was all out." Said the butcher: "Well, when I don't have any hamburger, I sell...
...hormones, and 95% of prostate cancers shrink (though 75% later become active again). "Of course we never use the word castration," he says. "It has bad psychological connotations. It's like a doctor who is about to take out your appendix saying, 'I'm going to butcher you up.' " Sometimes Surgeon Huggins does remove the testicles, but often their hormones can be neutralized, without operation, by a female hormone...
Ruffles & Flourishes. In East Molesey, England, Butcher Shop Executive Stan Richards and his bride, after a formal wedding, left the church under an arch of soupbones held aloft by 14 meatcutters...